CURRICULUM VITAE [September 2013]

James R. Stoner, Jr.

The James Madison Program in American Department of Political Science Ideals & Institutions (2013-14) Louisiana State University Baton Rouge, LA 70803-5433 83 Prospect Avenue (225) 578-2538; fax (225) 578-2540 Princeton, NJ 08540 e-mail: [email protected] e-mail: [email protected] http://www.lsu.edu/jamesstoner

EDUCATION

Ph.D., Harvard University, Political Science, 1987 M.A., Harvard University, Political Science, 1980 A.B., Middlebury College, summa cum laude, 1977

ACADEMIC POSITIONS

Princeton University: Garwood Visiting Professor and Visiting Fellow in the James Madison Program in American Ideals and Institutions, in the Department of Politics (2013-2014) Louisiana State University: Professor of Political Science (2003-); Department Chairman (2007-2013); Acting Dean of Honors (Fall 2010); Director of Graduate Studies in Political Science (1996-2000); Associate Professor (1994-2003); Assistant Professor (1988-1994) Goucher College: Instructor of Politics and Public Policy (1983-1988); Chairman of Prelegal Studies (1984-1988) Harvard University: Teaching Fellow in Government (1979-1983); Assistant Head Tutor in Government (1981-1983),

BOOKS (Authored)

Common-Law Liberty: Rethinking American Constitutionalism [a series of essays on the interplay between modern liberalism and the common law heritage in American constitutional history and in constitutional law today] (Lawrence: University Press of Kansas, 2003) Common Law and Liberal Theory: Coke, Hobbes, and the Origins of American Constitutionalism [a study of the origin and development of the doctrines that form American constitutionalism, in particular the doctrine of judicial review, from sources in the English common law on the one hand and liberal on the other] (Lawrence: University Press of Kansas, 1992; paperback, 1994)

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BOOKS (Co-edited)

Edited, with Donna M. Hughes, The Social Costs of : A Collection of Papers [essays from scholars in a variety of fields on the topic] (Princeton, NJ: Witherspoon Institute, 2010) Edited, with Samuel Gregg, Rethinking Business Management: Examining the Foundations of Business Education [essays offering person-centered perspectives on business management, business ethics, and business education] (Princeton, NJ: Witherspoon Institute, 2008); republished, with several chapters dropped or added, as Profit, Prudence and Virtue: Essays in Ethics, Business and Management (Exeter, UK: Imprint Academic, 2009)

SCHOLARLY ARTICLES

“Rational Compromise: Charles Evans Hughes as a Progressive Originalist,” in Joseph Postell and Johnathan O’Neill, eds., Towards an American : Constitutional Conservatism during the Progressive Era (New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2013 forthcoming) “Locke’s Explanation of How the Science of Civil Society Corrects the Natural Authority of Virtue,” in Peter Augustine Lawler and Marc Guerra, eds., The Science of Modern Virtue (DeKalb, IL: NIU Press, 2013 forthcoming) “The Justice of the Market and the Common Good: Justice Sutherland’s Debate,” in Francis J. Beckwith, Robert P. George, and Susan McWilliams, eds., A Second Look at First Things: A Case for Conservative Politics (The Hadley Arkes Festschrift) (South Bend, IN: St. Augustine’s Press, 2013) “Comment on Ralph Hancock, The Responsibility of Reason: Theory and Practice in a Liberal-Democratic Age,” Perspectives on Political Science 42: 43-46 (2013) “ and Property Rights,” with Samuel Gregg, in Samuel Gregg and Harold James, eds., Natural Law, Economics, and the Common Good: Perspectives from Natural Law (Exeter, UK: Imprint Academic [St Andrews Studies in Philosophy and Public Affairs], 2012), pp. 121-153 “Freedom, Virtue, and the Politics of Regulating Pornography,” in Donna M. Hughes and James R. Stoner, Jr., The Social Costs of Pornography: A Collection of Papers (Princeton, NJ: Witherspoon Institute, 2010), pp. 193-213 “Who Has Authority over the Constitution of the United States?” in Steven Kautz, Arthur Melzer, Jerry Weinberger, and M. Richard Zinman, eds., The Supreme Court and the Idea of Constitutionalism (Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2009), pp. 95-111, 270-272 “Magnanimity and Martyrdom: The Death and Life of Thomas More,” in Carson Holloway, ed., Magnanimity and Statesmanship (Lanham, MD: Lexington Books, 2008), pp. 133-143 “Natural Law, Common Law, and the Constitution,” in Douglas E. Edlin, ed., Common Law Theory (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2007), pp. 171-184 “The ‘Naked’ University: What if Theology Is Knowledge, Not Belief?,” Theology Today, vol. 62, no. 4 (January 2006), pp. 515-527 3

“Is There a Political Philosophy in the Declaration of Independence?,” Intercollegiate Review, vol. 40, no. 2 (Fall/Winter 2005), pp. 3-11 “Was Leo Strauss Wrong About John Locke?” with Comments by Michael Zuckert and a Response, Review of Politics, vol. 66, no. 4 (Fall 2004), pp. 553-573 “Catholic Politics and Religious Liberty in America: The Carrolls of Maryland,” in Daniel L. Dreisbach, Mark D. Hall, and Jeffrey H. Morrison, eds., The Founders on God and Government (Lanham, MD: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, 2004), pp. 251- 271 “The New Constitutionalism of Publius,” in Bryan-Paul Frost & Jeffrey Sikkenga, eds., History of American Political Thought (Lanham, MD: Lexington Books, 2003), pp. 230-247 “Is Tradition Activist? The Common Law of the Family in the Liberal Constitutionalist World,” University of Colorado Law Review, vol. 73, No. 4 (Fall 2002), pp. 1291-1306 “The Electoral College and Democracy,” in Gary L. Gregg II, ed., Securing Democracy: Why We Have and Electoral College (Wilmington, DE: ISI Books, 2001), pp. 43-54 “Constitutionalism and Civil Disobedience,” in Findings: The Wilberforce Forum’s Review of Contemporary Culture, Fall 2001, pp. 33-41 “The Common Law Spirit of the American Revolution,” in Mark Blitz & William Kristol, eds., Educating the Prince: Essays in Honor of Harvey Mansfield (Lanham, MD: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, 2000), pp. 192-204 “Christianity, the Common Law, and the Constitution,” in Gary L. Gregg II, ed., Vital Remnants: America’s Founding and the Western Tradition (Wilmington, DE: ISI Books, 1999), pp. 175-209 “Property, the Common Law, and John Locke,” in David F. Forte, ed., Natural Law and Contemporary Public Policy (Washington: Georgetown University Press, 1998), pp. 193-218 “Heir Apparent: Bushrod Washington and Federal Justice in the Early Republic,” in Scott D. Gerber, ed., Seriatim: The Supreme Court Before John Marshall (New York: New York University Press, 1998), pp. 322-349 “The Idiom of Common Law in the Formation of the Judicial Power,” in Bradford P. Wilson and Ken Masugi, eds., The Supreme Court and American Constitutionalism (Lanham, MD: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, 1997), pp. 47-68; also Common-Law Liberty, ch. 1 “Sound Whigs or Honeyed Tories? Jefferson and the Common Law Tradition,” in Gary L. McDowell and Sharon L. Noble, eds., Reason and Republicanism: Thomas Jefferson’s Legacy of Liberty (Lanham, MD: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, 1997), pp. 103-117 “Religious Liberty and Common Law: Free Exercise Exemptions and American Courts,” in Polity, vol. 26, no. 1 (Fall 1993), pp. 1-24; also Common-Law Liberty, ch. 3 “Common Law and Constitutionalism in the Abortion Case,” in The Review of Politics, vol. 55, no. 3 (Summer, 1993), pp. 421-441; also Common-Law Liberty, ch. 4 “Common Law and Natural Law,” in Benchmark, vol. 5, no. 2 (Winter 1993) [Symposium on Natural Law and the Constitution] 4

“Neo-Constitutionalism? Rawls, Dworkin, and Nozick,” with Clifford Orwin, in Allan Bloom, ed., Confronting the Constitution (Washington: The AEI Press, 1990), pp. 437-470 “Constitutionalism and Judging in The Federalist,” in Charles Kesler, ed., Saving the Revolution: The Federalist Papers and the American Founding (New York: The Free Press, 1987), pp. 203-218; also appears as chapter 12 in Common Law and Liberal Theory

ENCYCLOPEDIA ARTICLES

“The Declaration of Independence,” on the website, “Natural Law, Natural Rights, and American Constitutionalism,” The Witherspoon Institute (July 2011) < http://www.nlnrac.org/american/declaration-of-independence > “Common Law and the Law of Reason,” on the website, “Natural Law, Natural Rights, and American Constitutionalism,” The Witherspoon Institute (July 2011) “States’ Rights,” in Kermit L. Hall, ed., The Oxford Companion to American Law (New York: Oxford University Press, 2002), pp. 766-767 “Revolution, American,” and “Washington, George,” in Seymour Martin Lipset, ed., The Encyclopedia of Democracy (Washington, D.C.: Congressional Quarterly Press, 1996), vol. III, pp. 1065-68; vol. IV, pp. 1366-67 “Leo Strauss,” and “Carl Friedrich,” in American Political Scientists: A Dictionary, ed. Glenn H. Utter and Charles Lockhart (Westport, CT: Greenwood Press, 1993), pp. 293-296, 92-95

OTHER ARTICLES

“Why You Can’t Understand the Constitution Without the Common Law,” Liberty Forum/Online Library of Law & Liberty , with responses by John McGinnis and Hadley Arkes, December 2, 2012 “ ‘Our First, Most Cherished Liberty’ and the State,” Liberty Law Blog/Online Library of Law & Liberty , May 2, 2012 “Constitutional Auto-Update? A Response to Sanford Levinson,” Liberty Law Blog/Online Library of Law and Liberty , March 10, 2012 “A Brief History of Accountability in Higher Education,” with Suzanne Marchand, Phi Kappa Phi Forum 92 (1) (Spring 2012): 16-18 “Defining Judicial Power I: From ‘Merely Judgment’ to ‘Force’ and ‘Will’”; and “Defining Judicial Power II: American Political Development and Irreversible Change,” Liberty Law Blog/Library of Law and Liberty , February 20 & 21, 2012 “Judicial Office and the Written Constitution: A Response to Philip Hamburger’s ‘Judicial Office and the Liberty Protected by Law,” Liberty Forum/Library of Law and Liberty , January 6, 2012 5

“On Markets and Morals: The SEC, Apple, and Internet Pornography,” Public Discourse: Ethics, Law and the Common Good [www.thepublicdiscourse.com], May 18, 2010 “Last Lecture,” First Principles: ISI Web Journal [www.firstprinciplesjournal.org], January 14, 2010 “The Timeliness and Timelessness of Magna Carta,” First Principles: ISI Web Journal [www.firstprinciplesjournal.org], September 29, 2009; reprinted in The Canon: The Intercollegiate Studies Institute’s Member and Alumni Magazine, Spring 2010 “Guiding Principles for the Healthcare Debate,” Public Discourse: Ethics, Law and the Common Good [www.thepublicdiscourse.com], August 11, 2009 “Encyclical Forces Catholics out of the Bunker,” Zenit: The World Seen from Rome, July 10, 2009 “Natural Law and Economics: Total Strangers or Separated Lovers?” Public Discourse: Ethics, Law and the Common Good [www.thepublicdiscourse.com], June 2, 2009 “Politics and Science,” Public Discourse: Ethics, Law and the Common Good [www.thepublicdiscourse.com], March 20, 2009 “Does Economic Liberty Merit a Public Defense?,” Public Discourse: Ethics, Law and the Common Good [www.thepublicdiscourse.com], January 6, 2009 “Social Conservatives Cannot Ignore Political Realities,” Public Discourse: Ethics, Law and the Common Good [www.thepublicdiscourse.com], December 5, 2008 “The Political Science of Constitutional Resistance,” PS: Political Science & Politics 39 (October 2006): 957 “Constitutional Resistance,” Claremont Review of Books, vol. VI, no. 3 (Summer 2006), pp. 42-47 “Theology as Knowledge: A Symposium,” with responses by Stanley Hauerwas, Paul J. Griffiths, and David B. Hart, First Things, No. 163 (May 2006), pp. 21-23 (responses, pp. 23-27) “Saving a Great City: Why America Should Rebuild New Orleans” [online title: “Love in the Ruins: New Orleans is a Great City and America Should Rebuild It”], The Weekly Standard, vol. 11, no. 2, September 26, 2005, pp. “Save the Electoral College 538,” The Weekly Standard, vol. 6, no. 13 (December 11, 2000), pp. 17-18 “Faithful Professions,” in symposium, “‘I Have a Dream’: Ideas for Rebuilding American Culture,” Policy Review: The Journal of American Citizenship, No. 76 (March/April 1996), pp. 30-31 “Amending the School Prayer Amendment,” First Things, No. 53 (May 1995), pp. 16-18 “A Madisonian Compromise: Term Limits for the House, But Not for the Senate,” Policy Review (Winter 1995), pp. 54-55

BOOK REVIEWS

of John Tomasi, Free Market Fairness [“Rawls Meets Hayek”], in Claremont Review of Books, vol. 12, no. 4 (Fall 2012), pp. 61-62 of Witherspoon Institute Task Force on International Religious Freedom, Religious Freedom: Why Now? Defending an Embattled Human Right [“Why Religious 6

Freedom?”], Liberty Law Blog/Online Library of Law & Liberty , March 19, 2012 of Naomi Schaefer Riley, The Faculty Lounges, and Other Reasons Why You Won’t Get the College Education You Paid For; Mark Taylor, Crisis on Campus: A Bold Plan for Reforming Our College and Universities; Andrew Hacker and Claudia Dreyfus, Higher Education? How Colleges are Wasting Our Money and Failing Our Kids—and What We Can Do About It; and Richard Arum and Josipa Roska, Academically Adrift: Limited Learning on College Campuses [“Redeeming Higher Education”], in Claremont Review of Books, vol. 11, no. 4 (Fall 2011), pp. 64-67 of Eric A. Posner and Adrian Vermeule, The Executive Unbound: After the Madisonian Republic [“Popular Constitutionalism 2.0: Executive Edition”], in Tulsa Law Review, vol. 47, no. 1 (Summer 2011), pp. 171-176 of Philip Hamburger, Law and Judicial Duty; Douglas Edlin, Judges and Unjust Laws: Common Law Constitutionalism and the Foundations of Judicial Review; and Steve Sheppard, I Do Solemnly Swear: The Moral Obligation of Legal Officials [“Judicial Duty or Judicial Review?”], in Claremont Review of Books, vol. 10, no. 3 (Summer 2010), pp. 60-61 of Keith Whittington, Political Foundations of Judicial Supremacy: The Presidency, the Supreme Court, and Constitutional Leadership in U.S. History [“Our Robed Rulers”], in Claremont Review of Books, vol. 8, no. 3 (Summer 2008), pp. 48-49 of Ramesh Ponnuru, The Party of Death: The Democrats, the Media, the Courts, and the Disregard for Human Life, [“A Matter of Life and Death”], The Claremont Institute [online]: http://www.claremont.org/publications/pubid.706/pub_detail.asp, posted March 19, 2007 of Roy Morris, Jr., Fraud of the Century: Rutherford B. Hayes, Samuel Tilden, and the Stolen Election of 1876 and William H. Rehnquist, Centennial Crisis: The Disputed Election of 1876, [“ Counting Every Vote”], in Claremont Review of Books, vol. 5, no. 1 (Winter 2004/5) of Larry Kramer, The People Themselves: Popular Constitutionalism and Judicial Review, [“The People’s Court”], in First Things, December 2004 of Brian Moynahan, God’s Bestseller: William Tyndale, Thomas More, and the Writing of the English Bible – A Story of Martyrdom and Betrayal, [“Bible Battles”], in First Things, April 2004, pp. 37-40 of Hadley Arkes, Natural Rights and the Right to Choose, [“The Genteel Abolitionist”], in Claremont Review of Books, vol. 3, no. 2 (Spring 2003), pp. 12-14 of Paul A. Rahe, Republics Ancient and Modern: Classical Republicanism and the American Revolution, in Journal of the Early Republic, vol. 14, no. 4 (Winter 1994), pp. 551-556 of Robert F. Nagel, Constitutional Cultures: The Mentality and Consequences of Judicial Review, in The Review of Politics, vol. 53, no. 2 (Spring 1991), pp. 396-400 of Michael Lienesch, New Order of the Ages: Time, the Constitution, and the Making of Modern American Political Thought, and Thomas Pangle, The Spirit of Modern Republicanism: The Moral Vision of the American Founders and the Philosophy of Locke, in Publius: The Journal of Federalism, vol. 21, no. 1 (Winter 1991), pp. 168- 172 7

of John Phillip Reid, The Concept of Liberty in the Age of the American Revolution, in Publius: The Journal of Federalism, vol. 20, no. 2 (Spring 1990), pp. 132- 134 of Gary B. Herbert, Thomas Hobbes: The Unity of Scientific and Moral Wisdom, in the International Hobbes Association Newsletter, new series, no. 10 (November 1989), pp. 10-12 of Steven Shapin and Simon Shaffer, Leviathan and the Air-Pump, in the International Hobbes Association Newsletter, new series, no. 9 (June 1989), pp. 12-16

CURRENT RESEARCH PROJECT

“Natural Rights and the Idea of Progress in the Matrix of American Constitutionalism” — a study of American political thought as seen through foundational ideas and interests, constitutional principles, and debates over law and policy, over the course of American political development, with particular attention to the ideas of progress and of natural rights.

UNIVERSITY SERVICE

• Acting Dean, Honors College, Louisiana State University (July-December 2010) • Chair, Department of Political Science (2007-2013) • Member, Search Committee for Reilly Chair in Political Communication in the Manship School of Mass Communication (2012-13) • Member, Selection Committee, Multi-disciplinary Hiring Initiative, 2007, 2008 • Member, LSU Faculty Senate, 1994-95, 1996-97, 2006-09 • Member, LSU Faculty Senate Executive Committee, 2006-08; secretary, 2007-08 • Member, LSU Faculty Senate Committee on General Education, 2004-07 • Faculty Advisor to undergraduate Pre-law Society c.1991-95, 2003- • Member, Moodle Advisory Committee, 2008-

PROFESSIONAL SERVICE

• Member, Louisiana State Advisory Committee to the United States Commission on Civil Rights, 2010-12, 2013- • Member, National Council on the Humanities (supervisory board for the National Endowment for the Humanities), 2002-06 • Member, Executive Board of the Law and Courts Section of the American Political Science Association, 2009-2011 (elected 2008); member, Committee on the Law and Courts Section Lifetime Achievement Award, 2007-08 • Member, Edward S. Corwin Dissertation Award Committee, American Political Science Association, 2009 • Member, Program Committee, and organizer of the twenty panels in Political Theory, for the annual meeting of the Southern Political Science Association, New Orleans, Louisiana, January 6-8, 2011 8

• Member, Program Committee, and organizer of the eleven panels in Normative Political Theory, at the annual meeting of the Southern Political Science Association, Norfolk, Virginia, November 6-8, 1997

FELLOWSHIPS, GRANTS, AND AWARDS

• Garwood Visiting Fellow, James Madison Program in American Ideals and Institutions, Department of Politics, Princeton University, 2013-14 • Sternberg Professor for 2010-11, LSU Honors College • Senior Fellow, The Witherspoon Institute, Princeton, , 2009- • Chairman’s Award, Jack Miller Center for Teaching America’s Founding Principles and History, Washington, DC, April 24, 2009 • Grant from the Charles G. Koch Foundation to the Program in the Classical Tradition in Learning and Leadership to sponsor public lectures at LSU ($11,340), Academic Year 2010-11, continuing Academic Year 2011-12 • Grants from the Apgar Foundation to the Program in the Classical Tradition in Learning and Leadership to sponsor public lectures at LSU ($10,000 and $13,260), Spring 2009, and Academic Year 2009-10 • Grant ($50,000) to award a post-doctoral fellowship in a new Program on the Classical Tradition in Learning and Leadership at LSU, from the Jack Miller Center for Teaching America’s Founding Principles and History, June 2008 • LSU Tiger Athletic Foundation Teaching Award for the Honors College, awarded May 6, 2008 • LSU Distinguished Faculty Award, awarded May 9, 2006 • Research Award, Law and Economics Center at George Mason University, Summer 2005 • Summer Research Fellowship, The Earhart Foundation, Summer 2004 • Visiting Fellow, The James Madison Program in American Ideals and Institutions, Department of Politics, Princeton University, 2002-03 • Summer Research Fellowship, The Earhart Foundation, Summer 2002 • Summer Research Fellowship, with Richard Morgan of Bowdoin College, The Earhart Foundation, Summer 2000 • Summer Research Fellowship, The Earhart Foundation, Summer 1998 • National Endowment for the Humanities Fellowship for University Teachers, 1995-96 • Summer Research Fellowship, The Earhart Foundation, Summer 1994 • Salvatori Fellow, The Heritage Foundation, 1993-94 • Summer Research Fellowship, The Lynde and Harry Bradley Foundation, Summer 1992 • Summer Research Fellowship, The Earhart Foundation, Summer 1991 • John M. Olin Faculty Fellow, 1990-1991 (Visiting Scholar at the University of Michigan) • Summer Faculty Research Stipend, LSU Council on Research, Summer 1989

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RECENT PROFESSIONAL PAPERS

“Regime Change in the Fourth Estate: The Development of the Press and the Development of Democracy,” at the annual meeting of the New England Political Science Association, Portland, Maine, May 3, 2013 “The Political Theory and Political Practice of Reconstruction,” at the annual meeting of the Midwest Political Science Association, Chicago, Illinois, April 13, 2012 “Fiscal Councils in Constitutional Perspective,” at a consultation of the Witherspoon Institute on “The Economic Challenge: Fiscal, Monetary, and Financial Sustainability, Entrepreneurship and the Common Good,” Princeton, New Jersey, December 5, 2011 “Progressivism, Social Science, and Catholic Social Teaching in the Building of the American Welfare State,” at a conference on “Progressive Challenges to the Constitution,” sponsored by the Center for Political and Economic Thought, St. Vincent College, Latrobe, Pennsylvania, April 9, 2011; revised version, “Catholic Social Teaching and American Political Development: Fr. John Ryan and the American Welfare State,” at the annual meeting of the Southern Political Science Association, New Orleans, Louisiana, January 12, 2012 “John Locke Explains How the Science of Civil Society Corrects the Natural Authority of Virtue,” at a conference “’Stuck With Virtue’: The Scientific Foundations of the Modern World: Descartes, Locke, & Darwin,” at Berry College, Rome, Georgia, November 4, 2010 “The Polis and the Constitution,” at a conference on “Political Philosophy and the Constitution,” at Middlebury College, Middlebury, Vermont, October 23, 2010; repeated to the Program in Constitutionalism and Democracy at the University of Virginia, February 9, 2011 “The Constitutional Politics of Natural Law: Understanding the Schiavo Case,” at the annual meeting of the Midwest Political Science Association, Chicago, Illinois, April 25, 2010 “Teaching American Political Thought to Students of American Government,” at the Teaching and Learning Conference of the American Political Science Association, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, February 5, 2010 “How Judicial Activism Emerged from Progressive Science: Erie v. Tompkins and the Origin of Judicial Supremacy” at the annual meeting of the Southern Political Science Association, Atlanta, Georgia, January 8, 2010

RECENT LECTURES

“Stop Whining and Start Thinking: The Federalist on Partisanship and the Constitution,” at the Federalist Society, New Orleans Lawyers Chapter, New Orleans, Louisiana, June 6, 2013 “Liberalism and Religious Liberty,” at the First Freedom Academy, sponsored by the Minnesota Catholic Conference, Minneapolis, Minnesota, June 3, 2013 “On the Electoral College,” delivered to the Louisiana Electors at the State Capitol, Baton Rouge, Louisiana, December 17, 2012 10

“Republicans Versus Democrats: The Case of the Confederate Constitution,” to the Political Theory Institute, American University, Washington, DC, October 16, 2012 “The Fiscal Constitution and the Morality of Rights,” with panel discussion on “The Affordable Care Act (‘Obamacare’) and the Constitution,” Constitution Day Events at Middlebury College, Middlebury, Vermont, September 13 & 15, 2012 “Progressivism Versus Common Law: The Struggle to Define the Constitution,” one of two keynote lectures for a conference on “Continuity, Change, and Liberty in the American Constitutional Tradition,” sponsored by the Earhart Foundation, Dearborn, Michigan, July 28, 2012 “Catholics and the Constitution,” at Belmont Abbey College, Belmont, North Carolina, September 16, 2011 “Thinking Like Ronald Reagan,” to the St. Bernard Parish Republican Committee, Chalmette, Louisiana, February 22, 2011 “‘Christian Commonwealth’: The Puritan Communities,” in a course on The American Political Tradition (PLAP 2250), the University of Virginia, Charlottesville, Virginia, February 9, 2011 “Tradition and Modernity: The Original Constitution,” at the University of West Florida, Pensacola, Florida, September 17, 2010; at the University of Richmond, Richmond, Virginia, October 7, 2010; at Salve Regina University, Newport, Rhode Island, October 28, 2010 “Civility, Pluralism, and Public Reason,” at the Regional Meeting of the Philadelphia Society, “The Ethics of Rhetoric in a Digital Age,” Atlanta, Georgia, September 25, 2010 “Faith and Freedom, Political and Economic,” Levert Lecture at the Center for Spiritual Capital, Loyola University College of Business, New Orleans, Louisiana, May 19, 2010

RECENT CONFERENCES DIRECTED

Director, Liberty Fund Colloquium, “War and Money in the Original Constitution,” in San Antonio, Texas, May 31-June 3, 2012 Co-director, Liberty Fund Colloquium, “The Courts, the States, and Constitutional Liberty,” in Santa Fe, New Mexico, February 2-5, 2012

RECENT PARTICIPATION AT PROFESSIONAL CONFERENCES

Discussant, panel on “Lincoln and the Political Thought of the Civil War,” sponsored by American Political Thought, at the annual meeting of the American Political Science Association, Chicago, Illinois, September 1, 2013 Participant, roundtable on “A Republic If You Can Keep It: Crisis of Constitutionalism?,” sponsored by the Eric Voegelin Society, at the annual meeting of the American Political Science Association, Chicago, Illinois, August 31, 2013 Participant, panel on “The Supreme Court and Social Progress: Roe v. Wade at 40,” at a conference on “Milestones in the History of the Free Society and Prospects for Perpetuation,” The James Madison Program in American Ideals and Institutions, Princeton University, Princeton, New Jersey, May 21, 2013 11

Discussant, panel on “Constitutional Political Science after Behavioralism: The Legacy of Herbert Storing,” at the annual meeting of the New England Political Science Association, Portland, Maine, May 4, 2013 Participant, Liberty Fund Colloquium on “Democracy, Liberty, and Property in the American States,” La Jolla, California, November 15-18, 2012 Participant, conference on “The Goods of Family: Philosophical, Religious, and Literary Perspectives,” Brigham Young University, Provo, Utah, October 25-27, 2012 Participant, conference on “American Constitutionalism and the Legacy of Progressivism,” The James Madison Program in American Ideals and Institutions, Princeton University, Princeton, New Jersey, May 21-22, 2012 Discussant, panel on “Antebellum American Political Thought,” at the annual meeting of the Midwest Political Science Association, Chicago, Illinois, April 12, 2012 Chair and discussant, panel on “The Possibility of Natural Law,” at the annual meeting of the Midwest Political Science Association, Chicago, Illinois, April 12, 2012 Participant, conference on “Harvey Mansfield on His Eightieth Birthday: A Review of His Works,” Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts, March 30, 2012 Chair, panel on “Continuities and Discontinuities in Western Political Thought,” at the annual meeting of the Louisiana Political Science Association, Baton Rouge, Louisiana, February 25, 2012 Participant, Roundtable on Ralph Hancock’s Responsibility of Reason, at the annual meeting of the Southern Political Science Association, New Orleans, Louisiana, January 14, 2012 Chair and discussant, panels on “Montesquieu and His Legacy” and “Jurisprudence,” at the annual meeting of the Southern Political Science Association, New Orleans, Louisiana, January 12 & 14, 2012 Chair and participant, Roundtable on “A Republic If You Can Keep It: Constitutionalism in Crisis?” sponsored by the Eric Voegelin Society, at the annual meeting of the American Political Science Association, Seattle, Washington, September 3, 2011 Participant, Roundtable on “Natural Law and Contemporary Political Controversies” sponsored by the American Public Philosophy Institute, at the annual meeting of the American Political Science Association, Seattle, Washington, September 2, 2011 Chair, panel on “Locke’s Liberty and Virtue and the Meaning of Modern Individualism,” at a conference on “Law, Liberty, and Virtue,” The James Madison Program in American Ideals and Institutions, Princeton University, Princeton, New Jersey, May 16, 2011 Chair, panels on “Being and Paradigm,” “Poetry, Tyranny, and Citizenship,” and “Philosophy, Rhetoric, and the Common Good,” at the annual meeting of the Southern Political Science Association, New Orleans, Louisiana, January 6 & 8, 2011 Discussant, panel on “Rights and Reason,” at the annual meeting of the Southern Political Science Association, New Orleans, Louisiana, January 6, 2011 Roundtable Discussant, Witherspoon Institute Consultation on “Human Flourishing, the Economy, and Monetary Reform,” Princeton University, Princeton, New Jersey, December 15, 2010 12

Discussant, panel on “Philosophy and American Political Thought,” sponsored by the related group on American Political Thought, at the annual meeting of the American Political Science Association, Washington, DC, September 4, 2010 Participant, Roundtable on “Natural Law Jurisprudence and the Work of Hadley Arkes,” sponsored by the Claremont Institute for the Study of Statesmanship and Political Philosophy, at the annual meeting of the American Political Science Association, Washington DC, September 3, 2010 Chair and organizer, Roundtable on “Constitutional Issues in the Age of Obama,” sponsored by the Eric Voegelin Society, at the annual meeting of the American Political Science Association, Washington, DC, September 2, 2010 Participant, Conference on “Constitutional Conservatism in the Progressive Era,” at the Heritage Foundation, Washington, DC, June 18, 2010 Participant, Salvatori Center Colloquium, “The Fourteenth Amendment and American Constitutionalism,” Claremont McKenna College, Claremont, California, May 20-22, 2010 Presenter, “Common Sense and Common Law in American Independence,” at a conference on “Natural Law, Natural Rights, and the American Constitution,” The James Madison Program in American Ideals and Institutions, Princeton University, Princeton, New Jersey, May 18, 2010 Participant, Liberty Fund Experimental Conference on “The Struggle for Limited Government,” CATO Institute, Washington, DC, April 29-30, 2010 Participant, Liberty Fund Colloquium on “Democracy, Liberty, and Property in the American States,” Safety Harbor, Florida, March 11-14, 2010 Discussant, panel on “Constitutional Powers in Philosophical Perspective,” at the annual meeting of the Southern Political Science Association, January 9, 2010

SEVERAL OTHER RECENT PROFESSIONAL ACTIVITIES

Faculty, with presentation titled “The Right to Know Your Parents, and the Duty to Have a Child,” Intercollegiate Studies Institute Honors Program Summer Conference, “Rights and Duties,” in Richmond, Virginia, August 4-10, 2013 Presenter, Workshop on National Endowment for the Humanities Grantsmanship, Georgia Southern University, Statesboro, Georgia, February 9, 2012 Faculty, Course on “The American Founding,” with J. David Alvis, Master of American History and Government Program, Ashland University, Ashland, Ohio, July 14-19, 2013 Participant, Neuhaus Colloquium on Ethics and Public Affairs, The Witherspoon Institute, Princeton, New Jersey, March 24, 2011 Faculty, with presentation titled “A Trek through the ‘Switzerland of Learning’: Why the Road to Recover the Liberal Arts Leads through Science,” Intercollegiate Studies Institute Honors Program Summer Conference, “The Idea of a University: Yesterday, Today, Tomorrow,” in Annapolis, Maryland, July 25-31, 2010 Faculty, Course on “The Supreme Court,” with Jeffrey Sikkenga, and with plenary lecture on “The Supreme Court and Democracy,” Master of American History and Government Program, Ashland University, Ashland, Ohio, July 11-16, 2010 13

Participant, Neuhaus Colloquium on Ethics and Public Affairs, The Witherspoon Institute, Princeton, New Jersey, September 17, 2009 Presenter, “William Blackstone and the Founders’ Constitution,” at an Institute for Judges, sponsored by the Law and Economics Center of the George Mason University School of Law, Tucson, Arizona, April 19, 2009